Rain Pryor is a dynamic speaker,

award winning actress, singer, and two time

award nominated author.

Pryor's new show, "Pryor Experience",

a Jazz/Blues Comedy Cabaret, is a musical

tour de force that recently headlined the

world famous Hippodrome theater in

Baltimore Maryland.

Pryor has been performing as a Jazz/Blues

vocalist since 1993, and has played to sold

out crowds in Los Angeles, DC, Hong Kong,

London, and Scotland, where her 4 star

show was critically acclaimed "...not to be

missed."

Rain has been a working actor all her

life who started on stage and made her

television debut in 1989 as series

regular T.J. on the hit ABC series

Head of The Class. The character of

T.J. was taken from one of Rain's

characters that she presented to the

ABC producers in her audition.

Pryor, starred for several years opposite

Sherilyn Fenn and Lynn Redgrave,

as Jackie, the lipstick lesbian drug addict

on the Showtime series Rude

Awakening. She has guest starred on

shows such as The Division, Chicago

Hope ( with her father Richard

Pryor) She has appeared in numerous

independent features the

ground breaking Melvin Van Peebles

Film, Panther.

"Fried Chicken and Latkes" is Pryor's award

winning solo show based on her life. It is a

funny and poignant affirmation to remove

the world of race and class and look at the

human within.

"Fried Chicken and Latkes" played to sold

out crowds and standing ovations every

night at the 375 seat Canon Theatre in

Beverly Hills, CA, and repeated that success

at the Culture Project in New York; for the

Women's Center Stage Festival. The

audiences and the standing ovations just

kept on coming as Rain performed her

show all over the country in 2004 thru

2007 including, the UK.

Rain completely wrote, created, her show

including adding some of her own original

music and lyrics to the production. Rain was

a Los Angeles Times "Critics Choice" and

her singing voice and sense of timing

were hailed as rare gifts.

Rain has performed in the Los

Angeles production of Eve Ensler's,

Vagina Monologues at the Coronet

Theatre, Cookin' With Gas, with the

Groundlings improvisation troupe, The

Who's Tommy at the La Jolla

Playhouse; The staring role of Joan at

the Globe Playhouse, Westside Story

and Runaways, and Sisterella, which

earned Rain in 1994 a nomination

from the NAACP Theatre Awards

for Best Supporting Actress in a

Musical Equity.

Rain has never wanted to try and fill

her fathers shoes - she has her own to fill

and stands firm that life should never be

filled with fear - In homage of her dad

and being the first ever father daughter

team to both have headlined at The

Comedy store - Rain took to the stage

built for her dad and wowed the crowd

last year and repeated the feat by

performing at the Comedy Club La

Jolla. Rain likes to say "This ain’t my

daddy’s stand-up - I am my own person

up there" - "If your looking for

Richard Pryor, ya better go rent a

video!"

Over the years Rain has been honored

to have been a guest with both Johnny

Carson and Jay Leno, as well as The

Late Late Late Show with Craig

Ferguson, and a guest of everyone from

Air America to the Tavis Smiley

show.

2007 Rain, was nominated for the

NAACP Image Award, Best

New Author Biography & the

African American Literary Awards

for her book Jokes My Father Never

Taught Me, Life, Love and Loss with

Richard Pryor.

2005 she was nominated for 4

NAACP Theatre Award, Best

Female Performer Equity, Best

Original Playwright Equity, Best

Direction, Best Sound Design. Rain

won Best Female Performer Equity.

Rain was also the recipient of the 2005

Invisible Theatre's Goldie Klein

Guest Artist Award. In 2004 Rain

was nominated for Best Solo

Performance in the Los Angeles

version of the Tony's called the Ovation

Awards.

Rain's work is never done, she speaks

around the country on themes of Diversity,

family, Judaism, and Multiple Sclerosis,

bringing a unique and touching story to her

talks.

Pryor's commitment to fight for a cure of

Multiple Sclerosis has her educating around

the globe, Family and Friends about MS

treatment options and therapies, in honor of

her dad.

Rain asks that you join her in the fight

for a cure of Multiple Sclerosis by doing

something as simple as giving a donation

towards MS research. Rain believes if

everyone did something towards

a cure, no matter what it is, that the

world could change.



She is one of a kind.